Careers at Garfield

LAMP/PHP/CMS Web Developer - Newtown, PA

Garfield Group, a leading Interactive, Branding, and Public Relations agency with a distinguished client roster, is seeking an experienced LAMP Web Developer with an interactive agency background to join our award-winning team in Newton, MA.

Garfield Group’s focus is technology, healthcare and life sciences brands, providing clients an integrated, “no boundaries” approach to marketing communications — creating online and offline programs that drive measurable results. We have offices Philadelphia and Boston, and offer excellent compensation and benefits along with the opportunity to progress by merit.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, document, design and modify web applications
• Establish, maintain, and manage data integrity
• Work closely and effectively with interactive team to define, implement and refine features
• Understand the business implication associated with each project before going into design and development
• Participate in designing, estimating effort, coding, testing, debugging, configuring, integrating and documenting software
• Apply generally accepted programming standards and design patterns to software development efforts
• Refactor and maintain existing code as needed
• Develop systems to interface and integrate with various vendors and clients
• Work independently as well as with others and report progress of assigned deliverables to technical and team leads
• Maintain strong fundamental programming and developer skills with an ability to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently.

Requirements:

• Professional, high-integrity, reliable, organized, driven and results-oriented
• Minimum 5 years PHP/CMS Web Development experience in a digital marketing and/or advertising agency environment
• Experience and understanding of standards including CSS, HTML, and XML
• BS Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Demonstrated experience in CMS platform development environments including Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Silverstripe, etc.
• Expert knowledge of and fluency in PHP, Caching, Java SE, MySQL, MS SQL
• Working ability to maintain legacy code written in VBScript.
• Expert in cross-platform browser support and SEO techniques.
• Strong knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies and standards including CSS3 and HTML5.
• Demonstrated ability in JavaScript, AJAX and jQuery
• Strong capabilities in both front-end and back-end web-development
• Experience with version control systems such as Subversion and CVS
• Previous experience using Eclipse to edit and compile Java code.
• Understanding of server technologies (Windows, Linux, IIS, Apache, Tomcat) and the HTTP protocol
• Excellent Web UI skills with a special focus on standards compliance and usability
• Ability to estimate effort, meet schedule deadlines and track to a project schedule
• Hands-on experience with Agile development practices
• Passion for innovation and efficiency: proven track record implementing internal process improvements
• Ability to build and maintain internal partnerships across all levels and departments, including product, operations, sales, etc
• Referenced portfolio of projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with Office Software programs, Word, Excel and Outlook/Entourage
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat, specifically creating editable forms
• Previous experience with Salesforce and Hubspot a plus

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